Bow tie holders



June 13, 1961 MARCHETTl 2,988,228

BOW TIE HOLDERS Filed March 10, 1959 26 Z5 Z5 Z0 Illll IIIIIIII"IIIIIEHIIII' IIIIIII" BY AW/0 E. Maya/211 United States Patent2,988,228 BOW TIE HOLDERS Mario E. Marchetti, 1951 E. 29th St., Brooklyn29, N-Y. Filed Mar. 10, 1959, Ser. No. 798,487 1 Claim. (Cl. 211-13)This invention relates to holders or racks and, more particularly, to aholder for ready made bow ties particularly intended for use in the hometo hold and store the users supply of how ties.

While various types of racks are available for supporting conventionalcravats, they are not adaptable for sup porting ready made bow ties. Itis therefore an object of the present invention to provide a bow tieholder that is extremely simple in construction, eflicient in operation,and which will conveniently support a plurality of ready made bowties insuch a manner that they are all clearly visible and thus the user may ina minimum of time select the tie he wishes to wear.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a bow tie holderwhich can be readily mounted on any wall or stationary object in thehome, and which has individual bow tie support elements for releasablysecuring a plurality of ready made bow ties in vertically spaced apartaligned position.

Still an additional object of the present invention is to provide aready made bow tie holder of the type de scribed that can beinexpensively manufactured in large quantities with a minimum amount ofspecial equipment.

All of the foregoing and still further objects and advantages of thisinvention will become apparent from a study of the followingspecification, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing,wherein:

FIGURE 1 is a perspective view of a bow tie holder made in accordancewith the present invention;

FIGURE 2 is a front elevational view of the rack shown in FIGURE 1, witha bow tie shown in phantom lines mounted thereupon;

FIGURE 3 is a side elevational view of the holder shown in FIGURE 2; and

FIGURE 4 is an enlarged transverse cross sectional view taken along line44 of FIGURE 2.

Referring now to the drawing, and more particularly to FIGURE 1 thereof,a bow tie holder made in accordance with the present invention is shownto include a vertical main support plate 12 having a plurality oflongitudinally spaced apart and laterally outwardly projecting wings 14.Webs 16 integral with each of the wings 14, extend angularly outwardlyfrom the ends thereof so as to maintain terminal prong portions 18 inspaced apart substantially parallel relationship with the general planeof the main support plate 12. It is to be noted, however, that theintegral extension from each wing 14 consisting in the web 16 and theprong 18, is twisted through a slight angle, the right-hand one (FIG. 4)being twisted counter-clockwise and the left-hand one clockwise. Thisfeature is also shown in FIG. 3. It will thus be recognized that eachpair of prongs 18 are received within the space between the metallicwing clips 22 and fabric portions 24 of a ready made bow tie 26, suchwing clips 22 being received within the space between the prongs 18 andthe facing surface of the main support plate 12. A consequence of theoppositely twisted positions of the web and prong portions of the tieholder members is that a point contact, or a vertical linear contact ofvery short length, is provided between the prongs 18 and the forward tieclips 22, as indicated at 22a in FIG. 4.

2,988,228 Patented June 13, 1961 ice The upper end of the main supportplate 12 is also provided with an upwardly and rearwardly inclined web28 that maintains an upper mounting tab 30 in rearwardly spaced apartparallel relationship with the main support plate 12, such mounting tab30 having an aperture 32 extending therethrough for receiving anyfastener, such as a screw or nail for securing the rack upon a wall orother stationary object. The lower end of the main support plate 12 isalso provided with a downwardly and rearwardly inclined web 34 that isintegral with a lower mounting tab 36 having a similar aperture 38extending therethrough.

The operation and use of bow tie holder will now be readily understood.Any screw or nail fasteners may be used to secure the rack upon a wallor stationary object, with the male prongs 18 extending upwardly. Thus,each pair of prongs 18 may be used to support individual ready made bowties 26 in spaced apart aligned relationship with each other so that allare clearly visible. Also, each bow tie may be individually moved as maybe desired, without aifecting the remaining bow ties. The holder mayalso be conveniently constructed of stamped metal material, or may be ofmolded plastic material, so that it can be manufactured in largequantities at a relatively low cost.

The bow tie holder disclosed herein is obviously applicable to both cliptype and neckband types of how ties. The holder may be made as long asdesired and any number of bow tie supporting prongs may be placedthereon in spaced apart parallel relationship to accommodate any desirednumber of bow ties.

While this invention has been described with particular reference to theconstruction shown in the drawing, it is to be understood that such isnot to be construed as imparting limitations upon the invention, whichis best defined by the claim appended hereto.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent:

A bow tie holder comprising an elongated fiat strip consisting of anintermediate body portion and extensions on the ends of the bodyportion, said extensions including angular portions extending rearwardof the body portion and mounting tab portions on the outer extremitiesof the angular portions lying in a common plane spaced rearward of thebody portion, the holder being adapted to be mounted in verticalposition with said mounting tab portions secured to a wall whereby saidbody portion is spaced forward of the wall, the body portion havingequidistant vertically spaced pairs of horizontally spaced bow tieholding members of constant width thereon, each of said memberscomprising wings extending laterally from opposite sides of the bodyportion in the plane of the body portion, webs extending upward andangularly forward from said wings, and prongs extending verticallyupward from said webs, said members being flat and having said webs andsaid prongs thereof lying at oppositely disposed acute angles withrelation to the body portion and said wings with the juxtaposed verticaledges of the prongs being positioned at a greater distance from theplane of the body portion than the outer vertical edges thereof.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS1,571,000 Eustis Ian. 26, 1926 2,027,799 Wharton Ian. 14, 1936

